Editor
Dr. Ryan Thorpe teaches creative writing and literature classes at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute and serves as the assistant director of the writing program. He is the founder and executive director of the Inkwell literary collective (inkwell.asia) for anyone interested in creative writing. He writes columns for The Global Times, has published in numerous literary journals, and is currently working on a novel. He is the author of Teaching Second Language Creative Writing from Routledge. His research focuses on second language creative writing. He can be reached at bluetiger@inkwell.asia.
Academic Writing Editor
Dr. Amalia Jiva directs the Academic Writing Program and the student-staffed Writing Center at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint institute. In collaboration with colleagues and writing consultants, she initiated the JI Academic Writing Contest to feature and celebrate outstanding student writing at JI and is proud to see the winners featured on these pages. Amalia also teaches academic writing, philosophy, and literature courses at JI. In her own work, she is interested in the ethics of encountering texts, the connection between language and experience, and inter-cultural translations of questions of meaning and ultimacy.
Director of the JI Academic Writing Contest
Dr. Peter Weise joined the faculty of UM-SJTU Joint Institute in 2018 as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Academic Writing and Intellectual Breadth. Previosly, he taught at the University of California, Davis. His research addresses the history of acoustic culture with a primary focus on Anglophone literature of the long eighteenth century. His most recent publication, “The Politics of Elocution in the Female American,” analyzes how the development of oratorical practices in eighteenth-century Great Britain creates new narrative possibilities for female Robinsonades.
Creative Writing Editor
Andrew Yang is a Senior Lecturer at the Joint Institute. He has taught writing for seven years in genres ranging from academic writing, technical and professional reports, academic reviews, and fiction. He specializes in race in America, fantasy and science fiction, and Asian American Literature. He has taught in Canada, the United States, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China. He has written fiction for an online education company and presented fantasy and science fiction at ICFA and NeMLA conferences on topics such as empire, culture, and trans humanism. He is currently at work on a series of novels.
Assistant Editor
Md Mujib Ullah is a PhD student of English Language and Literature at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His poetry and translation have been appeared in Poem (Routledge), Galaxy, FreeXpresSion, Tuck Magazine & elsewhere. His works have been anthologized in a number of books. His academic research interests cover a wide range of area including Comparative & World Literature, Creative Writing, Sociolinguistics, Criticism, Media, & Translation. He is a member of Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) & Teaching and Education Research Association (TERA). He can be reached at mdmujib_ullah@yahoo.com
Mascot
The JI Tiger is rather reclusive most of the time, but he can be seen in this hard to obtain vintage photo where his blue will have to be imagined. While long considered to be a mythical creature, he is proud to be the mascot of the Joint Institute. While he excels at math and engineering, he mixes his love of science with the humanities and is proud to serve as the mascot for the Blue Tiger Review. He cannot be reached directly, only searched for, but like all magical creatures, he will appear to those who deserve him. If you find him, tell him hello from Ryan.
Joining the Team
If you are at all interested in working with The Blue Tiger Review, please email us at submissions@bluetigerreview.com. We are always on the lookout for volunteers who love literature, opportunities to hold workshops, or forums to discuss the importance of literature and creative writing.